Barnyard Bulletin | February 2026
Welcome to the Barnyard Bulletin
❤️ Helloooo February! 🩷
Needing some prayers? We got you! If you would like The Big Red Barn Prayer Team to pray for something specific, you can submit prayer request here! Remember no prayer is too big for our God and with community in prayer, anything is possible ❤️
Monthly Updates:
🌟 The Little Red Barn 🌟
As we move into February, I want to thank you all for your continued dedication, flexibility, and love for our kiddos. This season is all about growth, consistency, and connection—and I’m so excited to see what we continue to accomplish together 💕✨
>> 📝 Classroom Cleaning Expectations: Please continue making a conscious effort to maintain clean, organized, and sanitary classrooms each day. This is essential for the health, safety, and well-being of everyone who enters The Little Red Barn. As we remain in cold and flu season, it is especially important that we stay consistent and thorough with all daily cleaning and sanitizing routines.
Please ensure the following expectations are met:
✔️ Daily Sanitizing
- All tables, high chairs, and learning surfaces must be cleaned and sanitized after use
- Sweep and mop at the end of EVERY mealtime!
- Toys that are mouthed must be removed and placed in the “dirty toys” bin
✔️ Toy & Material Rotation
- Toys should be cleaned and rotated regularly
- Sheets, boppy covers, soft toys and restricted toy covers must be sent to wash every week!
- Please don’t put toys in the crib area – We don’t want to restrict play during the day!
✔️ End-of-Day Classroom Reset
- Floors swept and/or mopped as needed
- Shelves and centers organized
- Trash removed
- Sanitized inside and outside of fridge – bottle warmers are wiped cleaned
- Materials restocked for the next day! PT sheets and diapers switched!
We need to be completing the weekly cleaning checklists! Moving forward, I will be checking to see that they are getting completed! 🧡✨
- 📱Brightwheel Photos and Captions: Aim for 2-3 photos per child daily! One of these pictures needs to be curriculum! Add a short learning caption (doesn’t need to be long, just meaningful!)
- 📚 Don’t fall behind on Portfolios: Remember to start completing anecdotal observations and developmental checklists for Spring Conferences!
- 🎨 ART: Make sure you are doing one art project at least once a day! You should be saving art for portfolios and hanging some in your classrooms – this looks great for incoming parents! Product art is good, processed art is HIGHLY encouraged!!!
>> Handwashing Policy 🤚🏼🧼: As we head into flu season, please be extra mindful of handwashing routines with the babies- and yourselves! Parents MUST wash their infants hands at morning drop-off!!
>> Formula Bottle Update:
As the Health Department continues to update rules and regulations, effective mid-February, all bottles containing formula must have a formula band placed on them by parents.
>> Weather Guidelines for Outdoor Play 🌨️ : Once it starts snowing, we may not be able to go outside as much, so take advantage of the nice weather while we still have it!
- Make sure infants are dressed appropriately! (long sleeves, jackets, pants, socks, shoes, hats, etc.)
- Piglets | REQUIRED that you go outside once a day, weather permitting
- Cuddly Calves | REQUIRED that you go outside 2-3 times a week, weather permitting
5280 Gymnastics! 💪🏼✨
We’re excited to share that 5280 Gymnastics will be coming back to The Little Red Barn soon! It was so fun to see the kiddos participate in fun movement activities! More details will be shared as we get closer—stay tuned!
Playground Communication Update! 📲
As you all know, we will be transitioning to a new communication platform, Playground, in the near future. A staff training is scheduled in order to walk everyone through how to use this new system!
In the meantime, please keep this upcoming transition in mind and be prepared for this change as we move forward. More details, including training dates and expectations, will be shared shortly.
📅 Important Date:
February 23rd – Playground will be in full use for all daily communication, classroom updates, messaging, and documentation.
We understand that transitions take time, and we appreciate your flexibility and willingness to learn this new system. 🧡
Christian Academy Updates
We are officially in the inspection phase at the new location! We passed our Health Inspection earlier this week and have Licensing and Fire Inspections scheduled for next week! Things are moving fast are we are looking good to open in March. Opening day is still dependent on when the state give us the final ok, but we are looking at opening on either Monday March 2nd or Monday the 16th!
Our mission is to spread God’s love to your kiddos and to help them build a foundation of love, grace, and prayer. Your students will explore different bible stories in chronological order by having interactive and messy activities to learn from. At the barn, learning about Jesus is created to be fun, messy, and will ALWAYS result back to learning about God’s character. No matter the story or lesson, your students will focus their attention on which characteristic that God is displaying or teaching us about and how we can implement that characteristic in our own hearts. Focusing on God’s character will help us disciple children to become kind, graceful, and loving humans who aim to be more like Jesus. We want to bring God’s love and grace into every interaction we have with your students and your family.
With the help of Conscious Discipline and our strong focus on social emotional development of our students, we will help guide your students to build confidence in confiding in God through prayer no matter the situation. Not only will we begin our day with prayer, inviting God into our day-to-day experiences, but we will also help students build an understanding of how we can speak to God using interactive, visual ‘prayer helper books’. This will allow students to build confidence and teach them how to be transparent and honest with God while helping them start their prayer journeys. If behaviors occur between peers, we will also give prayer as an option for students to use as a problem solving technique to start allowing prayer to be the thing that brings them together. Prayer and God’s character will be at the heart of everything that we do!
Upcoming Events!
📌School Closures
- Closed for Teacher Planning and Prep Day on February 16th – This is a mandatory staff work day for all employees! All staff will be required to be onsite from 9-5.
📌School Closures
- Closed for Teacher Planning and Prep Day on February 16th
💕 Valentine’s Day Parties
Our classrooms will be celebrating Valentine’s Day on Friday, February 13th from 3:30–4:30 p.m. Families will be invited to participate in a small craft activity and engage in sensory exploration with their kiddos.
Please be prepared to:
✔️ Set up your classroom prior to the event
✔️ Come up with a small craft to give to parents!
✔️ Come up with one sensory activity to do with kids and families!
Please let Dom know what craft and sensory activity you come up with NO LATER THAN Tuesday, Feb. 9th! ✨
📸 Picture Day is Coming!
Mark your calendars! Picture Day will take place on Friday, February 27th. Photos will begin promptly at 8:00 a.m. 📸💛
Additional information about photo packages will be sent home the week prior✨
🐰 Easter Egg Hunt
Our Annual Easter Egg Hunt is coming soon! Kiddos will enjoy age-appropriate egg hunts and springtime fun. More details to come 🐰💛
Draw a picture of a heart for Dom if you read this months newsletter! 💌
Staffing Updates
✨ Meet Our New Additions ✨
Mr. Harold and Ms. Jade have been wonderful new additions to the LRB family this past month! They have been doing great things in our Piglets classroom and bring so much love, care, and support to our little learners. During this transition, they will be helping to establish a more structured daily routine provide your kiddos with consistency, comfort, and opportunities to thrive! 🌟
You will begin to see Ms. Katie around as she has been hired as a new Assistant Teacher and will be floating between all of our locations! She is currently training here at LRB and will transition to the Christian Academy upon its opening. ✨ Please join us in giving her a warm welcome during her first week!
We said goodbye to Ms. Jayna and we wish her the best in this next chapter!
Upcoming Birthdays! 🎂
Winona | 2/12
Cori | 2/17
Sharon | 2/17
Dom | 2/23
